Lan POV - He does not like Cairhienin because they are schemers. She torments him with all sorts of tricks, trying to get a rise out of him. Two days out, Moiraine finds Avene Sahera in the village Ravinda. At Chachin, they see the Aesdaishar Palace, home of queen Ethenielle; her banner is a prancing Red Horse. She is in the south, but Prince Consort Brys, her Swordbearer and general, is there as well as Edeyn ti Gemallen Arrel. His son Diryk is extremely lucky. He fell off a balcony and lived. His tutor is Mistress Tuval. Edeyn pledges fealty to Lan as king of Malkier. She plans for him to marry her seventeen-year-old daughter Iselle. She still holds his daori, braid of hair from one's carneira, hair cut at their first time, which means he owes her. She takes him to bed.

Lan POV - Lan spots Merean talking to Iselle. Iselle leaves and Merean follows her. Lan follows them, then his feet are pulled from under him and he falls down stairs, very lucky to be okay.15 A servant runs up and tells him that Bukama was stabbed and is dead.

So in TEotW,Ch2 why did she not immediately know Rand was the one she was looking for? Jordan's story on this is that Moiraine lost her notebook and after nineteen years she eventually forgot the names. As an aside, these names are left out in the novel. (NS,Ch17)